Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, ...
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies.
In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.
Eric Eustace Williams TC CH (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) served as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served as prime minister from 1962 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian.
Racial differences were only the later rationalizations to justify a simple economic fact: that the colonies needed labor and resorted to Negro labor because it was cheapest and best (20).
重读经典，这次注意到的地方是：（1）在本书成文的40年代，Williams如何同时论战传统的liberal justification for slavery system以及同时代的European Marx tradition & stagism & historicism的。全书最重要的观点如果用一句话来概括，那就是slavery is a MODERN and TRANSREGIONAL ...重读经典，这次注意到的地方是：（1）在本书成文的40年代，Williams如何同时论战传统的liberal justification for slavery system以及同时代的European Marx tradition & stagism & historicism的。全书最重要的观点如果用一句话来概括，那就是slavery is a MODERN and TRANSREGIONAL institution，往后不论是Black tradition如Fanon和Césaire，还是Marxist feminism如Federici都隐晦或公开地继承了这一遗产。理解了Williams的路标意义，你也就可以理解为什么Americanist内部对美国史学者那套“新资本主义史”的反对声中(展开)
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2 有用 Fika 2019-11-06 04:55:52
Racial differences were only the later rationalizations to justify a simple economic fact: that the colonies needed labor and resorted to Negro labor because it was cheapest and best (20).
1 有用 韦衡 2024-09-25 09:37:49 美国
重读经典，这次注意到的地方是：（1）在本书成文的40年代，Williams如何同时论战传统的liberal justification for slavery system以及同时代的European Marx tradition & stagism & historicism的。全书最重要的观点如果用一句话来概括，那就是slavery is a MODERN and TRANSREGIONAL ... 重读经典，这次注意到的地方是：（1）在本书成文的40年代，Williams如何同时论战传统的liberal justification for slavery system以及同时代的European Marx tradition & stagism & historicism的。全书最重要的观点如果用一句话来概括，那就是slavery is a MODERN and TRANSREGIONAL institution，往后不论是Black tradition如Fanon和Césaire，还是Marxist feminism如Federici都隐晦或公开地继承了这一遗产。理解了Williams的路标意义，你也就可以理解为什么Americanist内部对美国史学者那套“新资本主义史”的反对声中 (展开)
0 有用 Sisyphbel 2023-09-21 08:33:10 美国
Second time is the charm.
0 有用 柏拉图下港口 2025-10-27 08:59:33 美国
相当重要的开山之作。Williams用卷帙浩繁的历史资料论证了奴隶制如何支持了英国的商业和工业发展和其在相关利益集团那里的意识形态反映，以及这一与现代资本主义崛起相伴而行的看似“前现代”的血腥制度是如何随着新的工商业秩序的建立而被废除的。书中所引的关于黑人实际生存状况的记录触目惊心，其对商人、议员、教会代表的无法超越历史局限性的言行的呈现又极具讽刺。
0 有用 NNNNK 2022-06-29 11:43:10
地狱笑话合订本